CVE-2025-40906

Critical

Description

BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities. Those include CVE-2017-14227, CVE-2018-16790, CVE-2023-0437, CVE-2024-6381, CVE-2024-6383, and CVE-2025-0755. BSON-XS was the official Perl XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization, but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13, 2020 and is no longer supported.

SeverityCritical

CVSS9.8

Exploit probability51. percentile0.6%

Product

BSON::XS

PublishedMay 16, 2025

First seenMay 16, 2025

Weakness typeCWE-1395CWE-1395 CWE-1104CWE-1104 CWE-122CWE-122 CWE-190Integer overflow

How to fix

Vendor advisories

mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-perl-driver-end-of-life/7890

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
MONGODB BSON::XS	v ≤ 0.8.4	—

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